Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

http://www.fsteiger.com/gsteipow.html

(accessed October 2, 2009); Emerson, pp. 86–87; Giles, pp. 155–65; Kerr,

Surrender

, pp. 288–89.

24

History of American flag: Giles, pp. 156–57.

25

Kelsey Phillips learns Allen is free: “Lt. Allen Phillips Back in Care of U.S. Army, Mother Informed,”

Terre Haute Star

, September, 1945.

26

“That day”: Ibid.

27

Louie remains in Okinawa: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

28

Hospital parties: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

29

Louie startling USC recruiter: Ibid.

30

Typhoon: Ibid.

31

Louie flies in B-24: Ibid.; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

32

Overloaded B-24 crashes: Martindale, p. 243.

33

“This is Kwajalein”: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

34

One tree left on island: Ibid.

35

Hospitalization mandatory: Bernard M. Cohen and Maurice Z. Cooper,

A Follow-up Study of World War II Prisoners of War

(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955), p. 40.

36

Garrett and Louie stay together: Ibid.

37

Louie loses beloved shirt: Ibid.

38

Louie and Garrett wrestle on beach: Ibid.

39

“I just thought I was empty”: Ibid.

40

Wade goes home: Wade, p. 179; Tom Wade, letter to Louis Zamperini, August 20, 1946.

41

Phil’s homecoming: Kelsey Phillips, “A Life Story,” unpublished memoir; telegram and photographs from Phillips scrapbook.

42

Pete and Louie meet: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

43

Louie flown home: Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946; “Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004.

44

“

Cara mamma mia”:

“Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN.

PART V

Chapter 34: The Shimmering Girl

1

“This, this little home”: “Lou Zamperini Back in L.A.,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN.

2

Homecoming: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

3

Louie hears record: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

4

Nightmare about the Bird: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

5

Wade named Watanabe: Wade, p. 176.

6

MacArthur arrest list: “MacArthur’s Round Up of Criminals,”

Argus

(Melbourne), September 25, 1945; “Tojo Shoots Self to Avoid Arrest; MacArthur Orders 39 Other Criminals Arrested,”

Port Arthur News

, September 11, 1945.

7

Tojo suicide attempt: “Think Tojo Had Planned Suicide,”

Council Bluffs

(Iowa)

Nonpareil

, September 11, 1945; “Blood of Men He Sought to Destroy May Save Life of Man Ordering Pearl Harbor Attack,”

Council Bluffs

(Iowa)

Nonpareil

, September 11, 1945; Robert Martindale, telephone interview, January 2, 2005.

8

Watanabe flees: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

9

Watanabe hears name listed with Tojo, resolves to disappear: Ibid.

10

Manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

11

Fake letter: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

12

Watanabe said he’d rather die than be captured: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

13

Wave of suicides: Philip R. Piccigallo,

The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951

(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979), p. 45.

14

Affidavits: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331,0020NACP.

15

Two thousand letters: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 5, 1946.

16

Ringing phone, ninety-five speeches: Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

17

“It was like he got hit”: Payton Jordan, telephone interviews, August 13, 16, 2004.

18

Louie drives to forest: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

19

Los Angeles Times

dinner, drinking: Ibid.

20

Zamperini Invitational Mile: “Hero Takes Mile Without Running,”

Kingsport

(Tenn.)

News

, March 4, 1946.

21

Louie meets Cynthia: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, letters to Cynthia Applewhite, April 15 and May 9, 1946; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

22

“I want to see you again”: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

23

Cynthia dating Macs, first date: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

24

Cynthia’s history: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

25

Drinking gin at sixteen: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 8, 1946.

26

Louie throws toilet paper down hotel wall: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

27

Louie proposes: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 9, 1946.

28

Engagement concerns Applewhites: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 13, 1946; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

29

Cynthia ignorant of POW experiences: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

30

Easy on rice, barley: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 2, 1946.

31

Louie gets drunk on date: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

32

Louie warns Cynthia: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

33

“We have got to set”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 15, 1946.

34

“If you love me enough”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

35

Louie prepares for wedding: Louis Zamperini, letters to Cynthia Applewhite, April 5, 9, 27 and May 8, 1946.

36

Cynthia wants a home: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

37

Sleeping on floors: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 10, 1946.

38

Concerns about Applewhites: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008; Louis Zamperini, letter to Eric Applewhite, April 1946; Eric Applewhite, letter to Louis Zamperini, April 16, 1946.

39

Louie trains: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 13, 1946; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

40

Cynthia’s deal with parents: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 25, 1946; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

41

Ric’s fears: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

42

Louie, Cynthia argue: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

43

Cynthia calls home, Louie drinks: Ibid.

Chapter 35: Coming Undone

1

Garrett upset over rice: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

2

Toll of captivity: Norman S. White, MD, letter to the editor,

Hospital and Community Psychiatry

, November 1983; Bernard M. Cohen and Maurice Z. Cooper,

A Follow-up Study of World War II Prisoners of War

(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955); D. Robson et al., “Consequences of Captivity: Health Effects of Far East Imprisonment in World War II,”

JM: An International Journal of Medicine

, vol. 102, no. 2, 2009, pp. 87–96; Robert Ursano, MD, and James Rundell, MD, “The Prisoner of War,”

War Psychiatry

(Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General, 1995), pp. 431–56.

3

Nightmares, sleeping on floors, ducking, hallucinations: Knox, pp. 461, 463, 478–79.

4

McMullen speaking Japanese: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.

5

Weinstein’s urges to scavenge in garbage cans: Weinstein, p. 316.

6

Weinstein housing complex: “Georgia: No Shenanigans,”

Time

, January 2, 1950.

7

Halloran’s experience: Raymond Halloran, email interview, March 3, 2008.

8

Former POW spitting at Asians: Burke, p. 184.

9

Former POWs try to attack hospital staffer: Knox, p. 465.

10

McMullen after Japan: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.

11

“a seething, purifying”: Jean Améry,

At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 40.

12

“You must look”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 4, 1946.

13

Louie’s torment, resumption of running: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

14

Louie injured: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946; John P. Stripling, “Striptees,”

Torrance Herald

, November 28, 1946.

15

Louie’s nightmares, drinking, decline, resolution to kill the Bird: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

Chapter 36: The Body on the Mountain

1

Manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

2

Officer’s visit: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

3

Watanabe’s flight and quotes in this section: Ibid.

4

Conviction rates: John W. Dower,

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

(New York: Norton, 1999), p. 447.

5

Ofuna convictions: “Jap Officers to Be Hanged for POW Brutality,”

San Mateo

(Calif.)

Times

, October 13, 1948; William R. Gill and Davis P. Newton, “A Compilation of Biographical Source Documents Concerning Major William Herald Walker, U.S. Army Air Force (1919–1945), a Prisoner of War in Japan During World War II,” 1999; “8th Army Commission Court Gives Sentence to POW Torturers,”

Pacific Stars and Stripes

, February 29, 1948.

6

Naoetsu convictions: Lyon, pp. 49–51.

7

Sasaki’s capture, trial, imprisonment: Kunichi Sasaki and James Kunichi Sasaki records from RG 331, RAOOH, WWII, 1907–1966, SCAP, Legal Section, Administration Division and Prosecution Division, NACP: Kunichi Sasaki, Isamu Sato, Kazuo Akane, 1945–1948, Investigation and Interrogation Reports; Nakakichi Asoma et al., trial, exhibits, appeal, and clemency files; Nakakichi Asoma et al., 1945–1952, POW 201 File, 1945–1952, Charges and Specifications, 1945–1948.

8

Kano: Martindale, pp. 230, 240; Gamble, p. 339; Yukichi Kano, “Statement of Yukichi Kano, Tokio P.O.W. Camp H.Q. (Omori),” undated, from papers of Robert Martindale; Yukichi Kano, SCAP, Legal Section, Administration Division (10/02/1945–04/28/1952), File Unit from RG 331: RAOOH, WWII 1907–1966, Series POW 201 File, 1945–1952, NACP.

9

Kato accused of kicking a man nearly to death: Martindale, p. 141.

10

“Cross my heart”: Yukichi Kano, “Statement of Yukichi Kano, Tokio P.O.W. Camp H.Q. (Omori),” undated, from papers of Robert Martindale.

11

“I thought I”: Yukichi Kano, letter to Robert Martindale, December 23, 1955.

12

Watanabe in hiding: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

13

Intensified manhunt: Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

14

Watanabe goes to Tokyo: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

15

“You have plenty of room”: Ibid.

16

Watanabe approached for arranged marriage: Ibid.

17

“if she liked books”: Ibid.

18

“a burden which would make her unhappy”: Ibid.

19

Watanabe becomes cowherd: Ibid.

20

Bodies found on Mitsumine: “From Chief of Hyogo Prefectural Police Force,” November 21, 1950, report, from papers of Frank Tinker; Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Sgt.), vols. 1–3, 1945–1952, POW 201 File 1945–1947, SCAP, Legal Section, Administrative Division, RAOOH, RG 331, NACP.

21

Shizuka taken to body: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

22

Watanabe’s death announced: Ibid.

Chapter 37: Twisted Ropes

1

Louie plans to go back to Japan: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

2

Louie’s decline, troubled marriage: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Payton Jordan, telephone interviews, August 13, 16, 2004; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 22, 2004; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

3

“nails every one of us”: Améry, p. 68.

4

Shizuka sees dead son: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

Chapter 38: A Beckoning Whistle

1

Relatives think dead man is Mutsuhiro: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

2

Shizuka believes Mutsuhiro is alive, Mutsuhiro promises to return: Ibid.

3

Authorities question identity of body, tail family: “From Chief of Hyogo Prefectural Police Force,” November 21, 1950, report, from papers of Frank Tinker; Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

4

Meeting at restaurant: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

5

Shizuka refers to deaths at Mitsumine: “From Chief of Hyogo Prefectural Police Force,” November 21, 1950, report, from papers of Frank Tinker.

6

Rumors: Martindale, p. 248; Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005; Johan Arthur Johansen,

Krigsseileren

, issue 1, 1991, translated from Norwegian by Nina B. Smith.

7

if I am alive:

Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

8

Billy Graham history: Cliff Barrows, Graham musical director, telephone interview, February 22, 2007; Billy Graham,

Just as I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

(HarperSanFrancisco and Zondervan, 1997), pp. 92–158.

9

Los Angeles campaign: Graham, pp. 143–158; “Billy Graham Acclaimed: Crusade Continues as Over 300,000 Attend,”

Van Nuys

(Calif.)

News

, November 17, 1949; “Old Fashioned Revival Hits Los Angeles,”

Gettysburg

(Pa.)

Times

, November 2, 1949.

10

Movie contract: Virginia MacPherson, “Preacher Laughs Off Film Offers to Make Him Star,”

San Mateo

(Calif.)

Times

, November 12, 1949.

11

Louie and Cynthia meet neighbor: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

12

Cynthia goes to Graham: Ibid.; Cliff Barrows, Graham musical director, telephone interview, February 22, 2007.

13

Dinner at Sylvia’s: Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

14

Cynthia talks Louie into seeing Graham: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

15

Graham exhausted, doesn’t recognize daughter: Graham, pp. 156–57.

16

Train whistle: Billy Graham, “The Only Sermon Jesus Ever Wrote,” Los Angeles, October 22, 1949, audio recording, BGEA.

17

Louie’s impression of Graham: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

18

Graham’s sermon, Louie’s reaction: Billy Graham, “The Only Sermon Jesus Ever Wrote,” Los Angeles, October 22, 1949, BGEA; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

19

Cynthia gets Louie to return to Graham: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

20

Graham’s second sermon, Louie’s reaction: Ibid.; Billy Graham, “Why God Allows Communism to Flourish and Why God Allows Christians to Suffer,” Los Angeles, October 23, 1949, BGEA.

21

Louie’s last flashback: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

22

Louie and Cynthia return home: Ibid.

23

Louie at park, new view of his life: Ibid.

Chapter 39: Daybreak

1

Louie goes to Sugamo: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

2

Shizuka goes to see son: “From Chief of Hyogo Prefectural Police Force,” November 21, 1950, police report.

3

“Mutsuhiro,” Shizuka had said: Ibid.

4

Shizuka’s shrine: Frank Tinker, telephone interview, February 20, 2005.

5

Louie at Sugamo: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

Epilogue

1

Victory Boys Camp: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

2

Louie’s postwar life: John Hall, “Lou and Pete,”

Los Angeles Times

, June 2, 1977; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA; Morris Schulatsky, “Olympic Miler at 19, Skateboards at 70,” undated article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Cynthia Zamperini Garris, telephone interview, December 13, 2008.

3

“When I get old”: National Geographic Channel, “Riddles of the Dead: Execution Island,” October 13, 2002.

4

“When God wants”: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, December 12, 2006.

5

Not angry for forty years: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

6

Falls down stairs, stays in hospital: Ibid.; Cynthia Zamperini Garris, telephone interview, December 13, 2008.

7

“I never knew anyone”: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004.

8

Phil’s postwar years: Karen Loomis, telephone interview, November 17, 2004; Monroe and Phoebe Bormann, telephone interview, June 7, 2005.

9

Phil’s irritation: Karen Loomis, telephone interview, November 17, 2004.

10

This Is Your Life:

Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

11

“Dad must have”: Karen Loomis, telephone interview, November 17, 2004.

12

“a little grin underneath”: Ibid.

13

Life, death of Harris: Katey Meares, email interviews, March 14, 17, 18, 27, 2008; Whitcomb, pp. 286–87; Edwin H. Simmons,

Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir

(Darby, Pa.: Diane Publishing), p. 94; “Jamestown Man Gets Navy Cross,”

Newport Daily News

, December 6, 1951; “Marine Officer Missing in Korea,”

Newport Mercury and Weekly News

, December 29, 1950.

14

Pete’s life, death, Cynthia’s death: Peter Zamperini, telephone interviews, October 15, 17, 19, 22, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

15

Louie learns the Bird is alive: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

16

Watanabe’s return: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

17

Pressure to resolve war-crimes issue: Piccigallo, p. 47; Daws, p. 373; Awaya Kentaro, “The Tokyo Tribunal, War Responsibility and the Japanese People,”

Shukan Kinboyi

, December 23, 2005, translated by Timothy Amos; Ernie Hill, “Japan’s Revival,”

Oakland Tribune

, March 17, 1953.

18

“Christmas amnesty”: “Amnesty for 17 Top Jap War Suspects,”

Lowell

(Mass.)

Sun

, December 24, 1948; Dower, p. 454.

19

Kishi: Michael Schaller, “America’s Favorite War Criminal: Kishi Nobusuke and the Transformation of U.S.-Japan Relations,”

This Is Yomiuri

, August 1995.

20

Many defendants believed to be guilty: “Amnesty for 17 Top Jap War Suspects,”

Lowell

(Mass.)

Sun

, December 24, 1948.

21

Last man tried: Tom Lambert, “Last Trial Held on War Crimes by U.S. Tribunal,”

Stars and Stripes

, October 20, 1949; “All Known Japanese War Criminals Brought to Trial,”

Independent

(Long Beach, Calif.), October 20, 1949.

22

Sentences reduced: “War Criminal Is Due Parole,”

Lubbock Evening Journal

, March 7, 1950.

23

Treaty of Peace and reparations: Gary Reynolds,

U.S. Prisoners of War and Civilian American Citizens Captured and Interned by Japan in World War II: The Issue of Compensation by Japan

, Congressional Research Service, December 17, 2002, pp. 3–9, 9–10.

24

Order for apprehension revoked: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

25

War criminals paroled, amnesty declared: Daws, p. 373; “U.S. Pardons Last 83 Japan War Criminals,”

Stars and Stripes

, December 31, 1958.

26

Watanabe blames war, not self: Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “I Do Not Want to Be Punished by America,”

Bingei Shunjyu

, April 1956, translated from Japanese.

27

“I was just in a great joy”: Ibid.

28

Watanabe’s postexile life: Lyon, p. 63; Martindale, p. 250.

29

Visited America, rumors that the Bird is alive: Draggan Mihailovich, email interview, August 3, 2007; Martindale, p. 249.

30

Daily Mail

interviews with the Bird, Wade: Peter Hadfield and Clare Henderson, “Deathcamp Monster Finally Says I’m Sorry,”

Daily Mail

(London), August 20, 1995.

31

Naoetsu park movement: Yoshi Kondo, email interview, February 14, 2009; Shoichi Ishizuka, “About Naoetsu POW Camp,”

Gaiko Forum

, June 2006.

32

Mihailovich seeks the Bird, interview: Draggan Mihailovich, email interview, August 3, 2007; CBS Television, “48 Hours: Race to Freedom,” 1998.

33

Louie writes to the Bird: Louis Zamperini, letter to Mutsuhiro Watanabe, May 19, 1997; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

34

The Bird refuses to see Louie: Draggan Mihailovich, email interview, August 3, 2007.

35

Watanabe dies: Yuichi Hatto, written interview, July 16, 2004.

36

Louie runs with torch: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Chris Boyd, “Legendary Zamperini Carries the ‘Eternal Flame,’ ”

Palos Verdes Peninsula News

, March 5, 1998; R. J. Kelly, “Olympic Torch Relay Rekindles Ex-POWs Flame of Forgiveness,”

Stars and Stripes

, January 30, 1998; “Zamperini: War Survival Was a Matter of Miracles,”

Stars and Stripes

, January 26, 1998.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAURA HILLENBRAND is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in thoroughbred racing. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Map

Epigraph

Preface

PART I

Chapter 1. The One-Boy Insurgency

Chapter 2. Run Like Mad

Chapter 3. The Torrance Tornado

Chapter 4. Plundering Germany

Chapter 5. Into War

PART II

Chapter 6. The Flying Coffin

Chapter 7. “This Is It, Boys”

Chapter 8. “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was”

Chapter 9. Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes

Chapter 10. The Stinking Six

Chapter 11. “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This”

PART III

Chapter 12. Downed

Chapter 13. Missing at Sea

Chapter 14. Thirst

Chapter 15. Sharks and Bullets

Chapter 16. Singing in the Clouds

Chapter 17. Typhoon

PART IV

Chapter 18. A Dead Body Breathing

Chapter 19. Two Hundred Silent Men

Chapter 20. Farting for Hirohito

Chapter 21. Belief

Chapter 22. Plots Afoot

Chapter 23. Monster

Chapter 24. Hunted

Chapter 25. B-29

Chapter 26. Madness

Chapter 27. Falling Down

Chapter 28. Enslaved

Chapter 29. Two Hundred and Twenty Punches

Chapter 30. The Boiling City

Chapter 31. The Naked Stampede

Chapter 32. Cascades of Pink Peaches

Chapter 33. Mother’s Day

PART V

Chapter 34. The Shimmering Girl

Chapter 35. Coming Undone

Chapter 36. The Body on the Mountain

Chapter 37. Twisted Ropes

Chapter 38. A Beckoning Whistle

Chapter 39. Daybreak

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author